Why do this? Because surveillance capitalism wants you to be less free. It wants you to be glued to the screen. It wants you to buy whatever advertisers want you to buy. But you can fight back by deliberately poisoning your data.
Why do this? Because surveillance capitalism wants you to be less free. It wants you to be glued to the screen. It wants you to buy whatever advertisers want you to buy. But you can fight back by deliberately poisoning your data.
invidious instances never work for me, but with this one i could get further than ever, but when trying to play a video i get this error: “The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.”
what could this be?
YouTube is actively blocking Invidious and other proxies and bots for the past couple years or so. Additionally, for some reason some Invidious instances consistently don’t work for me, while other ones consistently do, which probably indicates connectivity issues between me and them.
Frankly, if YouTube works for you directly, I’m gonna advise using it via NewPipe and various desktop apps, as Invidious instances could be easily overwhelmed, what with them being hosted by individual volunteers. Video traffic is heavy.
thank you object and slempt for your feedback. so investigating yewtu.be does work on desktop without any problems, but on my iphone it depends on which browser and dns blocker i use. can anyone recommend a good newpipe substitute for iOS?
Try looking through those listed on Alternative To. Not all of them are really YouTube players, though.
sorry, i didn’t find the alternative list, can you send me a link please?
It’s linked in my comment to which you replied. Scroll down on there.
i can only imagine how excruciating this felt for you, sorry. my instance didnt show the link properly and i went looking in previous posts of yours. thanks for your patience!
Null sweat, mate.
It’s the second time I hear of Piefed not showing links properly, though. First time was a Youtube playlist link in a post. Yall over there might want to inform the admins of the problems: the previous commenter already did so.
P.S. Though if I open this thread on piefed.social in the browser with the default UI, it shows the highlighted link with the correct address, so not sure it’s an issue.
I get that sometimes too. Here are some other instances to try if you haven’t already:
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/
https://inv.nadeko.net/feed/popular
This firefox extension will automatically redirect you to alternative frontends for a few different services:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/